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Show 1 4 0UJ0l0g$f. MAlflfALARIA FHELtOIFERUA. . , j . i ;; do do do do OUB NATIVE FL03A. Since the botany and flora of Southern IJiah has been so ably portrayed Dr. Parrv of Davenport Iowa, ly who spent the last season here much interest has been manifest among S crisis and botanists East and in Europe, to posess the new and rare varieties, discovered in this remuch time gion. As ve are devoting and botanixing we to weed picking" describe "are enabled to occasionally same of the most rare and desirable, and sbaH be able at the end of the season to furnish seta of pressed plants to those who de ire them, and in eome instances will furnish by mail plants and seeds to those wishing ro add to their collee'ions, Below we give short descriptions of a few f that have recently come under our observation. bota-nixin- OXXOTHXRA HABUIEATA (?) hills, where no other character of vegetation is allowed by the ants to grow. The flower opens with a dash a few minutes after sunset, and is a bout two inches in diameter. In fact, in all except the color, the flower and plant are the same as Oe. Joknsonii. Both are most beautiful and intei eating, end (here are very few flowers in our greenhouie that attracts more attention at the present time. Be sides iheie we have a number of oth-e- r primroses that ire well worthy a place in any garden or greenhouse. CALXrOlUICA WITS SEES. , y Every fruit grower anf should be a beekeeper also, for these it good' reasons: a gardener and are generally at home through the season that bees ned watch care and thus they can be ' cared for at little expense or trouble; gardens and orchards produce agreat quantity of bee forage, and thus they .have bat little distance to go,jtnd of course will lay up more honey. Now if you would attain the beat success with bees, note these few simple rules: 1st. Always use a good frame hire, the Kidder for example, and . give it a shaded position for summer, find ip winter a dry dark room. Sod. Never disturb the colny unless lrxcxssARY and dont go through them" every day just to see how they get along, or from curiosity... ? 3rd. Keep them fn!l never take from them except! when full, then empty the two outside outside frames of honey as fast as they are filled, and no more. 4th. In artificial propagation, take one or two frames from a hive.. until you have enough in the new hive; six frames, but care oust be taken lest you lake away the Queens from the old hives. It but one is taken, all is right, but if more, all but one will be killed in the contest for the vine-yardi- and-strong- j sovereignity. rth. Never scatter or drip honey 15 from around an apiary, and in handling the fragrant and abundant; plant sweets nf which you rob the bees, act to SO inches high; inceesaut bloomer, with celerity acd despiich, and quickfound among tho rocks. ly close the hive and take away the FHACXUA FRIXnXTII honey, that robbers may not be attracgrows from six to ten inches high ted by the scent of the honey or open bloswith dense head of purplish-blu- e hive. soms. It is a profuse bloomer, very robbe attacked Should a neat and pretty and now in bloom. bers take colony of lath ! by inches a piece A. L. Siler, writing from Osmer, inches long, and lean it and 8 wide, Utah, says that the new Shepherdia in front of the entrance horixontally, we noticed in the issue of Feb., is leaving room at each end for bees to SHSPHIRDZA BOTOXDIfOLZA, Fairy. outer and depart one at a time. everand mosrteautiful Should a colony chance to be queeninteresting a to adornment any less, take a frame of eggs and brood green shrnb, and an collection of plants. covered with bees from centra of a He also speaks of the Arctostaphy-lo- s full hive and put into the centre of Glauca, and A. uva ursi, which your queenless hive, and you wil both are very graceful and charming probably have a young queen at work evergreens, with thick, glossy foliage in tbyee weeks. ar.d trcm r.e to three feet high. Should moth encroach, take out all the trames. clean the hive carefully, GIAXT COS VOLVULUS. then return all the clean sound frames Root everlasting; herbaceous top two or three of honey and brood, taking away all bushy and shrub-likinfected by moth, then add a frame of feet high, blooms June and July, two of brood, honey and young Lees or blossoms large trumpet shaped three from a strong colony. taken from dark inches across, Should a colony be short of stores, purple at the throat to light at outer take a frame of honey from a full hive circle, m bloom theplant is most and put in the place of an empty mas niflcent, and in thegarden we have from rear the centre, een ?6 blossoms at a time on the frame removed 1 take or ft sugar, a third' pint 'of ingle plant in July water, bring to a boil and cool; now JERKS. Three varieties have keen discov- lay piece or empty comb horixontally ered. a fine water fern, resembling on top of frames, and pour the syrup fill the cells. maidenhair, growing on the reeky on, letting it Now if these rules are observed, atreps near springs or waterfalls, there need he no fear of loss of bees. another, a dwarf, wooly var. growing in dry crevices of rocks, the ciher The great key to success is keep the strong, and heavy with honey, grows at a cooler altitude, leaves colony and need not fear robbers, mow, large, coarsely lobed, and is found in loss you of queen or loss by starvation, mountain gorges deeply embedded in cold or anything except foul brood. the soil. Is now in bloom; flowers white, silky, e, ed nea-tarine- nd rB7IT 'billed. We regret to announce that between (he tenth and fifteenth of present month we were visited by frosts so severe that all frnit in bloom at' the time was destroyed, Peaches, Nectarines, Apricots and Almonds entirely killed, leaving a few Plums, Pears, Cherries and a fair crop of A pples and . g, A low, dwarf, hairy plant, growing near and around the thousand of ant MIKIBIL1S Tils year gives most exeellentop portmity for all who have bad shaped tree leads, to prune closely and abundantly especially peach apricot. almond, nowthey are fruitiest. 'If you would have large, fine fruit zfixt crop, and have yonrtrees prepared to hold np heavy, crop, lent away tje top cruelly, that it shorten in the ranches and twigs, top and all around until one half the tree top is taken; away, Tnis will give1!; the FHACXLIA CBKXULATA. Ireera atai tling growth, new vigor and A very beautiful plant, in and give thrifty wood to bear on life',' growing gravelly soil, from 6 to 12 inches nigh .text year, resulting in large sixed with long racemes of bright purple frnit and a capacity for your trees to flowers. Blossoms early (n the sprir stand up under the load. 6UC3ES3 - ref EDITORS TABLE. pswiYmraram This is a delieae little round cactus about two inches in diameterpinea PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY laying back flat, recurved at the point J. E. JOHNSON. forming a little hook generally kno'n as the fish-bo- ok ONB DOLLAR A YEaR. cactus." Sm ill blossom in March and. early in April, BATES OF ADVEBTZ8ZNG. bears from one to six little red berries .. For tianaient advertising first ier" or seed pods, plants "will often be ton,' per line found where several heads appear lOcta Kach subsequent insertion (pr.llne) W) frsin one root. This ' is one of the $ Card of 10 lines one year 4.00 six months do prettiest novelties in thecactus line colomn one year H 40.00 here. I? . . -- - . Strawberries, Grapes. Currants, Gooseberries and Raspberries generally escaped. The first crop of figs is cutoff, but we hope for a v second crop. In view of short fruit crop, we urge upon our hortieulturists the necessity oilsrger crops of Tomatoes, Melons, syrups and vegetables generally. A FL0WSB7 gNMOM. The name of James Vick is more widely and favorably known, than that of Lick, the California million aire, who, when about to die, became a great philanthropist and gave his millions to public charities, but on Recovering his health wapted his Tea. Yick is a German. money bank. born of poor but respectable parents." At an early age he round hie way to Rochester, New York, and soon, by hia perseverenee, skill and industry, became known as a florist, and now stands at the head of the rank of florists, and owns his millions of rarest and most beautiful flowers with ten acres of greenhouses, and hundreds of acres of flower garden, and half a thousand employees, He plants acres of dowers of one sort, and gathers the finest and rarest see 's by the bushel, and this is how he is ena. bled to sell seeds of finest flowers for so .little money. Why, he has floral palaces and a whole flowery kingdom ot his own where the loveliest floral gems under the sun are daily dealt out to his customers. One may order anything in seeds and plants by mail at the lowest rates, and be sure to get the best of anything desired. We hare tried, and know. A-rae- rican The Deseret News is the oldest on tt.e Pacific Slope, and is an important item in the history of the past,' present, snd will be of the future of this whole mountain country. It is edited with ability, is an excellent paper, and deserves ths support of every worthy Utahonian. See adv. elsewhere; American Bee Journal. Monthly W. T. Claris and Ellen S Tupper) Cedar Rapids Iowa, $2 per year. Send for, and read it if you would succeed with bees. The Colorado Agriculturist and Stock Journal is a large, interesting1 8 page weekly. $7. a year. J. R. Hill Editor. Denver Colorado, Scientific American, $3,20 pr yr Munn A Co. solicitors of patent 37 Park Row N. Y.The best of its kind. Science of Health. Monthly, 8. R. Wells N Y $2 a year. Very useful. And now it is the Ogden Junction, much enlarged and improved, and ably edited, is anxiously looked for, and regularly ree'd. It contains a world of news, and good selections, and since its sleepless editor got cr.ed for telling too much truth, we think its caustic pen much sharprr, and more cutting to all black coated knaves and oily tongned liars. Rural New Yorker. The best of good things. Weekly, Rochester New. York. Western Rural, Chisngo III. 82 a year. A real interesting family weekly. See advertisement of The Nurseryman's Directory aud Reference Book for the United States in another col. of this paper. Phrenological Journal. S R Wells New York. $3 pr year a very useful and interesting family magaxine for all sorts of refers. American Agriculturist. ' Orange Judd. Monthly. Not a whit behind the best. New York Gardeners Monthly. Thomas Meehan, Philadelphia, $2 a) ear. to all who love a good garden. The Horticulturist. H T Williams 92 a year. N Y. Monthly and most excellent. Woods Household Magazine. N. Y. Household pub. company. 8la . year. Greatly improved. Beekeepers Magaxine. H A King New York. 81,25 pr year. Monthly. should have it. Every Young Folks Monthly. Chicago 111- -. Moat excellent. New song, Chorus and Muic. We have just ree'd from F. W. Helm-ic- k. 278, West 6th street, Cincinnati Ohio, a beautiful song, entitled Sadie . -- , India-pensib- le bee-keep- er Wm. Morton A Son of Deering. T. RutMaine, deal largely in evergreens, Darling", composed by Jno. music that by rising young auand send out by mail for one dollar ledge, thor, Charlie Baker. It is a pretty a marvelous lot. Look for adv. . song, and the musie is arranged for Piano or Organ, and is said to be not TO P3KGL95ZCAL sal HOBTICULTUBAL difficult, and will be sent postpaid for SOCIETIES, and GABDZNEBS CLUES 35 cents. This firm also publishes THBOUUHOUT UTAH! all the latest and beat songs, and are o As it is desirable to make oar Terri fully up to the wants of the musical torial fruit report, for the use of the public. . American Pomolpgieal Convention, The Harper Publications: We call (which is to meet in Chicago Sept. 8th to adv. in another column, o attention pros.) as fall, correct, and complete as possible, 1 desire that the 3eo of e cb the above very popular periodicals, and any of said soeieties, will, at an which need no endorsement of excelearly i ay make fruit report to me from lence from our pen. The reading their respective localities, comprising public know their worth. list of varieties of fruit best adapted to Thi lions Florist. This beautitheir section, for flavor, productiveness and useful book is from Long Bros, ful profit and hardiness, and aiao the frait grown in each location, any or all . new seedsmen and nurserymen, Buffalo N, fruits considered floe or valuable with Y. For the use of the general flower concise descriptions of same. In order growor throughout the country, this to make the Utah fruit report in good work has no equal, as it gives in plain season to the ehairman af tne fruit com simble language full directions for mittee, I should receive all the reports both from the various localities by the 1st of planting seeds and raising plants, in garden and conservatory, giving August Prox. descriptions of plants, price of seed?, J.E. JOHNSON, Ac. Every florist should have one. Committee Utah. Of the Genl Frnit for St. Gto.Apl 1875 Priee 30ete. . |